linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix compile breakage caused by asmlinkage

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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:03:07 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, drepper@...hat.com,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...hat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix compile breakage caused by asmlinkage_protect

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:37 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:25:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> > > and that gets us -traditional-cpp passed to cc1, with obvious resulting
> > > unhappiness from vararg macro.
> > 
> > Yeah, I figured it out eventually. 
> > 
> > I do think the architectures should try to avoid it, if only because x86 
> > doesn't use -traditional (so they'll hit things like this unnecessarily 
> > otherwise), but I'll apply Heiko's minimal patch in the meantime.
> > 
> 
> Cool with me; I'll try to puzzle out why removing -traditional breaks on
> those two specific files. Ugh, big cleanups likely.

So there is at least one architecture that really requires -traditional,
it is not an option to just remove them. For s390 the kernel compiles
fine without -traditional on the AFLAGS so we can as well remove them.
I'll queue the patch below. In the meantime Heikos patch will have to
do.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

---
[PATCH] s390: remove -traditional from AFLAGS

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile b/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
index 4d3e383..cfb6ccc 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for the linux kernel.
 #
 
-EXTRA_AFLAGS	:= -traditional
+EXTRA_AFLAGS	:= 
 
 #
 # Passing null pointers is ok for smp code, since we access the lowcore here.
diff --git a/arch/s390/lib/Makefile b/arch/s390/lib/Makefile
index 5208443..dd6f9f5 100644
--- a/arch/s390/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/lib/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for s390-specific library files..
 #
 
-EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional
+EXTRA_AFLAGS := 
 
 lib-y += delay.o string.o uaccess_std.o uaccess_pt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_32BIT) += div64.o qrnnd.o
diff --git a/arch/s390/math-emu/Makefile b/arch/s390/math-emu/Makefile
index 73b3e72..42828d3 100644
--- a/arch/s390/math-emu/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/math-emu/Makefile
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_MATHEMU) := math.o
 
 EXTRA_CFLAGS := -I$(src) -Iinclude/math-emu -w
-EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional
+EXTRA_AFLAGS := 


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